Shipping and displaying box



July 14, 1925.

A. C. CROFT SHIPPING AND DISPLAYING BOX Filed Nov. 19 1924 i IN VEN TORfldllw; 6. 6%.

ATTORNEY Patented July 14, 1925. 9

UNITED STATES- PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR G. CROFT, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

SHIPPING AND DISPLAYING BOX.

Application filed November 19, 1924. Serial No. 750,932.

playing boxes, and particularly to an improvement of this character forwhich I have applied for a patent therefor, Serial No. 731,465.

The object of the invention is to provide a box for shipping anddisplaying chocolates and candies and provided with facilities forholding separated individual candies or other fragile articles toprevent breaking or crushing of the same when packing, transporting, orhandling the box.

a, A further object of the invention is to arrange the individualchocolates or candies in individual order with respect to the variousflavors thereof and to provide facilities for selection of the candieswithout handling the same.

I attain these objects and other advantages by means of the structureand combination of parts illustrated in the accompanying drawing inwhich-Fi ure 1, 1s a top plan view of the box embo ying my invention,the cover being omitted to disclose the separator device and the carrierassociated therewith. Figure 2, is a longitudinal section of the box, onthe line 22, in Figure 1.

Figure 3, is a to plan view of one of the carriers, and showingindentations therein for folding the carrier to shape and, Figure 4, isa. cross section of the box and its cover, and showing the separator andcarrier associated therewith.

Similar numerals of reference refer to corresponding parts throughoutthe several views.

Referring to the drawings-the numeral 1, designates a shipping anddisplaying box constructed in accordance with my invention and which ismade of any suitable flexible material, preferably card board and 2,indicates the box cover. A separator device 3, is stationed in the box,at a point intermediate of the depth thereof, and disposed in ahorizontal plane. The separator may be held in place by any suitablemeans,

. preferably by a supporting flange, as shown in Figure 2.

The separator 3, cons sts of a plate of flexible board having thereinmethodically arranged openings 4, preferably arranged in rows to therebyprovide between the ends of the openings transverse strips 5, which areadapted for supporting a carrier device hereinafter more particularlydescribed and, between the sides of the openings, longitudinallyextending strips 6, which are adapted for separatin individual candiesin the individual openings and, at the same time, providing spaces 7, atthe openings upon which may be marked information data respecting thequality or flavor of the individual candies located in the openings inthe separator, as shown at 8, in Figure 1. Associated with the separatoris a strip 9, of suitable flexible material, preferably card board, andhaving transversely extending rows of indentations 20, ndicating thepoints of folding or shaping the strips to form pockets 10, adapted tobe suspended in the openings 4, in the separator and from the strips 5,to receive and carry therein chocolates, candy, or fragile articles, intrays or wrappers 12, as shown in Figures 1 and 2, and also to form ofthe end portions of the strip 9, upturned flanges, as shown in Figure 2.The strip 9, when folded in conformity to the transverse indented linesthereon, forms a carrier 14, adapted for hanging from the strips 5, andsuspend therefrom the pockets 10, into the lower portion of the box.

When chocolates or candies are to be packed into the box, a separatordevice is selected and a strip 9, is folded to conform to the indentedlines 20, and then placed in one of the rows of openin s in theseparator, in such a manner that t e carrier formed by the folding ofthe strip, will be suspended from the strips 5, between the ends of theopenings, the pockets of the carrier depending in the openings. A strip9, is manipulated as described for each row of openings in the separatorand, when the separator is fully equipped with carriers, the same isplaced in the box in a horizontal plane and the end portions orflangesof the carriers are turned upward so that the edges arepositioned against the lower side of the separator and the flangesbearing against the inner side of the box. The reaction of the flangesefi'ecting a frictional bearing on the box, both the separator and thecarrier associated therewith are held in place and, both being made offlexible material, they are resilient in considerable degree and absorbshocks sustained by the box, yielding and rebounding in the well knownmanner.

After the separator and carriers have been mounted in the box,chocolates or candy are individually placed in the trays or wrappers 12,and the individual article-deposited in the pockets 10, in the carriers,the wrapper or tray extending above the article a suitable distance. toand above the separator. The individual pieces of chocolate or candy maybe arranged in the pocket 10, at the point where its particular qualityor flavor is marked on the spaces 7, on the strips 6, this arrangementmaking it ossible to make a selection of a articular avor withouthandling the candles to locate the candy wanted. The flexible resilientpockets of the carriers provide means for .the safe and sanitarypacking, shipping, displaying, and selection of chocolates or candy, andthe segregation of the individual pieces of the contents of the boxprevents contact with each other. The resilient carriers function, also,to absorb shock and vibration incident to transportation and handling ofthe box. The information data marked at the pocket openings permits theidentification of the choloclate or cand having the flavor desiredwithout han ling the contents of the box for the purpose.

Having described my invention what I claim isawn-1e? ble resilientmaterial mounted intermediate of the depth of the inside of the box andprovided with individual series of pocket openings therein, andindividual strips of flexible resilient material associated with saidplate and manipulated thereon to form individual pockets depending inthe box through the pocket openings in the plate and adapted forsegregating individually the contents of the box.

2. In a shipping and displaying box, the combination w1th the box, of aplate of flexible resilient material mounted intermediate of the depthof the inside of the box and provided with individual series of pocketopenings therein, said plate bearing at the pocket openings thereininformation data relative to the article in the pocket openings, andindividual strips of flexible resilient material associated with saidnipulated thereon to form individual pockets depending in the boxthrough the pocket openings in the plate and adapted for segregatingindividually the contents of the box.

Dated Kansas City, Missouri, October 31st, 1924.

ARTHUR O. CROFT.

Witnesses:

Jorm C. STEARNS, Em NOEL.

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